3 Tips to Get to Know Your Doctor

Byadmin October 17, 2012

Here is a USA Weekend piece on the type of advice I give in Critical Decisions – how to make stronger connections with your doctor.

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How to Tell Grandpa He Is Too Old for Another Colonoscopy
Byadmin January 16, 2018

Shutterstock Cancer screening can save lives: Mammographies reduce the chance women will die of breast cancer; and colonoscopies reduce the chance people will die of colon cancer. But should my 93-year-old father receive a screening colonoscopy? The test is uncomfortable, carries risks, and costs money. Even more importantly, my dad probably won’t live long enough…

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Early Morning Radio Interview in Australia
Byadmin October 3, 2012

Listen to this interview I conducted with a radio station in Australia. Good Q&A about Critical Decisions. Toughest part of the interview was remembering that although it was 4:30 in the afternoon my time, it was 6:30 the next morning for the Aussies!

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Angry Your Doctor Won’t Tell You What That Test Costs? You Should Be!
Byadmin August 20, 2019January 6, 2020

Steve B. wasn’t going to be fooled twice. He’d recently seen an ear, nose, and throat specialist for a “tickle in the throat” that wouldn’t go away. He’d forked over a co-pay at check-in, but then the doctor said he needed “to put a scope down there” and check his throat. He later received a…

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Do Starbucks Employees Have More Emotional Intelligence than Your Physician?
Byadmin November 2, 2012

A cranky customer snaps at his barista, lodging an unjustifiable complaint about the service, the temperature of the drink…about anything and everything. He came into the store angry (and in pain from a chronic illness) and he needed something–or someone!–to take it out on. He is met by a well-trained smile, the barista doling out…

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Doctors Can't Be Trusted to Tell Patients Whether They Should Receive Robotic Surgery
Byadmin June 24, 2016

Patients often rely on physicians for information about their treatment alternatives. Unfortunately, that information is not always objective. Consider a man with early stage prostate cancer interested in surgical removal of his tumor, but uncertain whether it is better for the surgery to be performed with the help of robotic technology. He asks his surgeon…

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My Take on Shared Decision Making
Byadmin September 12, 2012

Put simply, shared decision making is the gold standard — the sine qua non* — for how medical decisions ought to be made. The pipe medical choice is rarely a function of medical facts alone. Tough decisions require value judgments, and it is the patient’s valuesthat often determine which choice is best. An operation cannot…

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3 Tips to Get to Know Your Doctor

How to Tell Grandpa He Is Too Old for Another Colonoscopy

Early Morning Radio Interview in Australia

Angry Your Doctor Won’t Tell You What That Test Costs? You Should Be!

Do Starbucks Employees Have More Emotional Intelligence than Your Physician?

Doctors Can't Be Trusted to Tell Patients Whether They Should Receive Robotic Surgery

My Take on Shared Decision Making

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